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How Twitter Got Started …

Author: Mahdad

Found this old email here. Amazing to see Twitter’s early days of planning and execution. This is an email from co-founder Jack Dorsey to Noah Glass which spurred the 8 day initial development of Twitter. See what the interface looked like in its first weeks as well below. (pre Middle East revolutions).

registering by giving mobile # and confirming with PIN
Basic tests for that exists and passes. Could you check the view for
it, Jack? Thanks!
registration through email invite with PIN

login with an existing mobile # by entering PIN

Tuesday

user can update status
user can invite friends by inputing phone #s
user can get status for friends and self
user paginates through status timeline in 12 hour increments

Wednesday

user can allow site to remember their login information (convenience)
user can see all public updates
user can choose to receive status change notifications via Email for
followed users
user can get statistics about followers and pings

SMS only registration
registration through SMS invite with PIN
user can get help
user can protect their updates with an optional secret word, by
default, updates are global
user can choose to receive status change notifications via SMS for
followed users